EU/Vietnam Investment Protection Agreement
This consent-procedure file concerns the EU/Vietnam Investment Protection Agreement. Amendments add provisions on the absence of a prior human-rights impact assessment, the Investment Court System replacing existing bilateral investment treaties between EU Member States and Vietnam, UNCITRAL transparency rules and the arbitration clause, the imbalance between investor protections and investor responsibilities, the right to regulate, the Sustainable Development Goals, ILO labour conventions, and human-rights conditions in Vietnam.
Procedure timeline
- Committee amendments tabled15 Jan 2019 – 14 Nov 2019
- Plenary vote — Passed12 Feb 2020 · On the resolution (the text as a whole)
- Procedure completed
Plenary votes
2 roll-call votesIn plenary, Parliament usually votes in steps: first on amendments to the text (sometimes split into parts, so Members can accept one half of a sentence and reject the other), then on the text as a whole. The “main vote” is the one that adopts or rejects the text itself. Each vote below shows exactly which step it was. How voting works →
- 12 Feb 2020Failedoutcome from totalsOn amendment 1Official label: Am 1 · what was voted ↗178 for439 against28 abstentions58 did not voteForAgainstAbst.
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- 12 Feb 2020Main votePassedoutcome from totalsOn the resolution (the text as a whole)Official label: Résolution · what was voted ↗406 for184 against58 abstentions55 did not voteForAgainstAbst.
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Vote data: HowTheyVote.eu (ODbL, attribution) / European Parliament · roll-call votes only
Official amendment documents
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58 Members · by amendment countThe amendments, in full text
142 amendmentsEvery amendment as tabled — original text, proposed change and justification, with a link to the official PDF.